Neil Innes Quotes
We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.
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The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,’ Kim said. ‘Though it’s possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.
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We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
